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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Absalom get from the blacksmith?
(a) A sword.
(b) An anvil.
(c) A red-hot poker.
(d) Tongs.

2. Who helps the knight answer the question?
(a) Another knight.
(b) The queen.
(c) An old, ugly woman.
(d) Venus, the goddess of love.

3. What is the question the knight must answer?
(a) What is happiness?
(b) What do women most desire?
(c) What is love?
(d) What is the key to happiness?

4. What is the subject of the Merchant's Tale?
(a) Marriage.
(b) Travel.
(c) Finance.
(d) Religion.

5. Who restores January's sight?
(a) Pluto.
(b) An angel.
(c) Venus.
(d) Prosperpina.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who told the Clerk the tale he tells?

2. Where is the man from who told the Clerk his tale?

3. What is the name of the king in the Clerk's Tale?

4. What is different about the Miller's section in comparison to the Knight's section?

5. Why does the demon take the summoner to hell?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the point the Summoner makes about friars with the anecdote in his Prologue?

2. Why are Palamon and Arcite jealous of each other when Arcite is released from the tower?

3. Why does the Man of Law tell a story he heard once before?

4. According to the Clerk's Prologue, what is the method for telling a good story?

5. Why is it fitting for the Squire to begin the tale that he does?

6. What is the Squire's plan before he is interrupted?

7. What concern does the Friar have about the Wife of Bath's Tale?

8. What is the basis of the Reeve's story? Why is this the basis for the story?

9. Why are the pilgrims confused by the Merchant's Tale?

10. How are the summoner and the yeoman both bailiffs?

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